ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Anticipatory Baseline Pupil Diameter Is Sensitive to Differences in Hearing Thresholds.
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- Arousal state fluctuations are a source of internal noise underlying age-related declines in speech intelligibility.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Pupillometry reveals effects of pitch manipulation within and across words on listening effort and short-term memory.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Relations Among Multiple Dimensions of Self-Reported Listening Effort in Response to an Auditory Psychomotor Vigilance Task.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Eye Movements Decrease during Effortful Speech Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Time Scales and Moments of Listening Effort Revealed in Pupillometry.Seminars in hearing · 2023Review
- Combining Multiple Psychophysiological Measures of Listening Effort: Challenges and Recommendations.Seminars in hearing · 2023Review
- Use of the first-acquired language modulates pupil size in the processing of island constraint violations.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Impact of SNR, peripheral auditory sensitivity, and central cognitive profile on the psychometric relation between pupillary response and speech performance in CI users.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Identifying Listeners Whose Speech Intelligibility Depends on a Quiet Extra Moment After a Sentence.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- The relationship between pupillary baseline manipulated by mental effort or luminance and subsequent pupillary responses.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- A decrease in physiological arousal accompanied by stable behavioral performance reflects task habituation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Adults with cochlear implants can use prosody to determine the clausal structure of spoken sentences.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Effects of Noise and Serial Position on Free Recall of Spoken Words and Pupil Dilation during Encoding in Normal-Hearing Adults.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Deep learning-based pupil model predicts time and spectral dependent light responses.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Attention Mobilization as a Modulator of Listening Effort: Evidence From Pupillometry.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Task-evoked changes in pupil dilation have long been used as a physiological index of cognitive effort. Unlike this response, that is measured during or after an experimental trial, the baseline pupil dilation (BPD) is a measure taken prior to an experimental trial. As such, it is considered to reflect an individual's arousal level in anticipation of an experimental trial. We report data for 68 participants, ages 18 to 89, whose hearing acuity ranged from normal hearing to a moderate hearing loss, tested over a series 160 trials on an auditory sentence comprehension task. Results showed that BPDs progressively declined over the course of the experimental trials, with participants with poorer pure tone detection thresholds showing a steeper rate of decline than those with better thresholds. Data showed this slope difference to be due to participants with poorer hearing having larger BPDs than those with better hearing at the start of the experiment, but with their BPDs approaching that of the better hearing participants by the end of the 160 trials. A finding of increasing response accuracy over trials was seen as inconsistent with a fatigue or reduced task engagement account of the diminishing BPDs. Rather, the present results imply BPD as reflecting a heightened arousal level in poorer-hearing participants in anticipation of a task that demands accurate speech perception, a concern that dissipates over trials with task success. These data taken with others suggest that the baseline pupillary response may not reflect a single construct.
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